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Even though we live in a modern world where technology is at its peak, we are encountering many problems of our modern age. Social and environmental problems are piling up and we can now only rely on our gained knowledge and technology to help us solve those problems and make this world a better place. There is research that is dealing with nanotechnology that we have been exploring for quite some time now and it is possible that nanobots will be the ones to save the future.﻿
By combining technology and our nervous system we will be able to control our virtual reality but from within the nervous system. There is so much we can do with such a technology. We still don’t know the limits of artificial intelligence and by attaching such technology to our nervous system, we could be taking a step towards a completely new era of science where we could treat terminal diseases and help people without limbs.

Technology improvement makes our world better

Also, if we learn how to use electricity in a much more productive way than today, we could significantly lower the carbon emission and solve some of our social and environmental problems. With so many possibilities, we can safely think that we will surely improve the way entire world functions but our lives as well.

So, it is absolutely safe to conclude, the same will go for the way we learn, think and comprehend. Therefore, technology holds the key to the future evolution of our world and us as a species without any doubt. The truth is, we still have not realized the full potential of technology and how we can use it. As the time goes by, each day we discover something more. In 30 years, we will be able to do so much more than we are now.

Still, the most important thing is to take care of our health and environment because without that, all that progress and technology are absolutely useless. That is why we think that we should focus on these two matters more than anything else.

In order to improve the way students learn and receive their education, communication is more than paramount. It is an essential part because that is a way how they perceive what it is that they are going to learn. Based on how their teachers communicate with them, we can determine the level of their response and comprehension.

We can’t only rely on technology in order to pass the knowledge, we need to make sure that the students actually understand what they need to learn. Without that understanding, it is pointless to feed them information that will only make them even more confused. That is exactly why the communication is so crucial to the quality of their gained knowledge.﻿
The level of their education depends on the way the information is passed on to them. If we want to make sure that our students are successful, we need to understand that communication is the only thing that can make that happen. Knowing how to get the point across the classroom is paramount and the quality of communication depends on the level of knowledge of a teacher, resources and time.

Technology improves the education

We strongly believe that just like technology can help improve the education system, it can also improve communication in the way students receive that education. Therefore, students have multiple ways of communicating with their teachers. They can use email to connect with their teachers and other students and that is how they can catch up on anything they have previously missed.

Furthermore, they can also use websites to find any relevant information and resources needed for their school projects. They can use the Internet to share announcements and assignments with other students and teachers. Social media platforms today allow group chats where students can communicate and learn through socializing and having fun.

So, communication is extremely important and useful and it can greatly help students to overcome any obstacle or a barrier that is keeping them from receiving their necessary knowledge. Verbal communication is also important in order to review everything they have learned.

Education plays one of the most important roles and parts of our lives. It is directly related to an individual level of success. A person can develop themselves economically, socially and personally depending on their level of knowledge and education. Not only one person but the entire nation. If you want to live the life of prosperity, your education plays a crucial role in the process.

Education is what made all the greatest men of this world what they are and it’s what empowers and helps such great minds to conceive the greatest ideas and thoughts. It is also what enables students to analyze their decisions while making life important choices. Since life constantly provides the most various challenges, we use our education as guidance in order to fight those challenges and obstacles and become successful and who we want to be.

So, it’s absolutely safe to say that education plays a crucial role in our everyday life. When we are talking about troubles that bother the modern human society such as environmental problems, unemployment, corruption, famine, natural disasters and so on, we can always remember that we can rely on our education and knowledge to fight and remove those problems.

Therefore, it is very important to understand that it is not only about getting a certain degree, it is more about becoming a better person in every way socially, economically and personally. An individual fully aware of this fact is a person who is ready to give something to the world. So, that means that these persons will not use their knowledge solely for their own purposes but they will go beyond themselves.

Education ensures evolution for the entire humankind

Aside from this, learning is what helps the people to become honest citizens and most of all, parents. Being able to run intelligent conversations with people of the same or even higher education is what leads to the greatest discoveries. That is how we were able to develop the technology we have today or our medicine and educational systems.﻿
Because of the accumulated knowledge passed from generations to generations, today, we are able to treat people with terminal illnesses and much more. Each and every day, educated people from all over the world are doing everything they can to expand the things we as a species already know in order to acquire even more knowledge which will ensure the most certain evolution.

We need evolution to keep moving forward and if we are to evolve, we must gather and acquire all available knowledge comprehensible to the human mind. Just like education is what makes personal development possible, the same goes for the national development.

Brave New Classroom points out all the benefits technology can bring to the way younger generations are learning. Technology can improve the education is so many effective ways that people from different countries can learn and educate themselves anywhere without fear of the language barriers. This goes especially for language learning.

The Internet and personal computers can help in so many ways to develop new types of electronic education, allowing students to learn more comfortably. Corporatization and commodification have made the necessary technology for the highest quality distance learning quite unavailable to a large number of the world population but the increasing exploitation of teaching labor is pointing to the technology direction again. It can be extremely beneficial and in fact essential to establishing a fully working and functional electronic education system that would allow students to reap all the benefits that come with it.﻿
The education based on the Internet and technology can speed up the entire process of learning, giving a lot more possibilities to students than ever before. While competent teaching is still essential, technology can benefit pupils and students. Classrooms are getting equipped with computers as people are starting to realize that the Internet is becoming rapidly important for learning just like books.

The evolution of education

Through the use of technology, kids can get used to using a computer for educational purposes where they can get access to a much bigger selection of data and if properly guided by the teachers trained to help them develop such skills, their level of education might improve rapidly over a very short period of time. It’s crucial to let kids have a bit of fun because it has been proven that the kids are best learning through fun and play.

Giving them a chance to explore the ways how computers and the Internet can help them to keep constantly upgrading their knowledge might spawn entire generations of specialists, professionals, doctors, scientists and experts that might make the world a better place. After all, we have developed our technology in order to help us make our lives more comfortable as well as to give us a chance to evolve even further.

Without knowledge, science and education, the process of evolution couldn’t be possible. Therefore, it’s extremely important to introduce Information Communication Technology into all spheres of the education system in order to help it evolve.

In a world of today, it’s literally impossible to conduct any type of business without technology. It’s present in every sphere of our lives and everything we do is intertwined with some type of technology. Technology can help you to make your business more successful without any doubt as there are so many technology applications that you can use to improve your business and create a strategy that will lead you to success. To run a successful business, you need to maintain communication at all times with all your employees, partners and clients.

Well, that’s where technology can help you a lot because it allows you to maintain more comprehensive and much faster communication than ever before. Associated devices with the Internet give you so many useful possibilities to make radical communication improvements. Smart phones and laptops now available are much more powerful and faster than before and you can use such devices to maintain communication and the entire workflow no matter where you are.

Using such sophisticated devices can bring the highest quality level of organization to your communication tactics and methods. Once you acquire such strategy you can start using your resources to their full potential getting much better results than before. Now, resource management is as important as communication. The way you manage your resources will greatly restructure your workflow and the manner things are done.

The benefits

That way you can get more than valuable insight into the things closely related to the core of your business where you can analyze all the available assets at your disposal in order to see if they’re put to a good use. That is the best way to make sure that you are using the resources in the right way, getting the best of what you have.﻿
This makes problem solving much easier and you can react on time in case that something unpredictable happens. Now, think about labor savings and safety advantages. Since the latest technology made automation possible, you can now use that emerging technology to make significant improvements in every aspect of your business including the number of employees you have.

Not only that but you will get the ability to modify or correct any business process with ease. Worker safety is always a priority and technological innovations will see to it that your employees are safe at all times.

I’ve been reflecting the last couple days on Apple’s new iPad. The product that, before it’s announcement, some had claim would revolutionize education.
If it does…..it will be a shock to me.
I have nothing against Apple (I’m typing on a MacBook that I love), I just think this piece of hardware is not what we need in education.﻿
I had high hopes for this new piece of technology. Enough to stay up until 3am on a school night to watch the live announcement. Throughout the keynote, I was waiting to be wowed by something new, something different, something that would allow me to produce content in a new way.
But it didn’t come.

Leading up to the keynote I was watching TWIT.TV and their coverage. I don’t remember who said it, but one of the host said something to the effect of:
“It will be interesting to see what they come out with, when you start with the questions ‘How do we allow people to consumer media?’”
It’s a great question and I think the iPad nails that question on the head. If you want a new way to consume information, it’s a great piece of technology that allows you to do that.
We already have ways to consumer information in education. Consuming information has never been our issue. What we need help with is teaching students how to become producers of information and knowledge.

The key is to create students that produce knowledge

I wrote about this almost two years ago in a post titled “Moving from Consumers to Producers of Information” and have created a presentation that I give by the same name that has been well received.
I have no doubt that the iPad is a great consumer device, but I want my students to be able to produce videos podcasts and blog posts. I want them to be able to edit wikis with full editing features (Safari browser does not support many WYSIWYG Editors….including the one built in Moodle…an online course program used by a lot of schools). I want my students to becoming producers of knowledge not just consumers of it. We already have ways in which we consume information that work….I think…pretty well. It is without any doubt a good mobile device with plenty of useful features and to an ordinary consumer, it has a lot to offer. When it comes to education, I would not recommend it as a permanent solution because students need more, a device with better content editing options.

Apple’s own iPad website states:

The best way to experience the web, email, photos, and videos.
That might be so, but what’s the best way to create web pages, emails, photos, and videos. That’s the device I want. That’s the device I want in the hands of my students!

Backchannel Chat is a very popular way of sharing educative notes with your friends and fellow colleagues among students. Anyone with the URL link can participate and it seems that this is one of the best ways of taking notes at lectures and classes.

The biggest advantage of such a chat channel is the fact that anyone from all over the world can access the information so that gives the ability to students from all across the globe to connect and work on a project together without having to be present in person.

The advantages that come from such notion are endless and something simple as a chat can be easily turned into a science project or something even more important and bigger. When it comes to good reasons why anyone should give it a try, here are ten that will prove that Backchannel Chat has a lot to offer.﻿

Don’t miss your chance to try this chat

This chat is the best way how you can keep up with your lectures. That is the first reason why anyone should try it. You can type much faster than you write and in case that you miss something, you can easily access the comments to catch up with anything you have missed previously. While you’re doing that, use the opportunity to have some fun while chatting.

The second reason would be because this chat is the best way to remain on-track with all the relevant information regarding your lectures. This is particularly useful for those who are new to backchannel chatting because they can focus their discussions on the keynotes.

The third reason is transferring knowledge. The keynotes are much easier to understand as a whole due to the fact that you have to type them which makes it easier to remember.

The fourth reason is staying focused. When you type the keynotes of a lecture and you go through them with full understanding, it’s much easier to stay focused. The main benefit coming from it is the ability to participate in the discussion that leads to a further comprehension of the matter.

The fifth reason is engagement. From all the focus comes the eagerness to participate and contribute the healthy conversation which will make all points relevant and clear.

The sixth reason is the perspective that you get from participating. Not only yours but other people’s perspectives as well which leads directly to the seventh reason which is clarification. When there is anything unclear to you, there is always someone who understands. You can get the clarification right away without interrupting the lecture to ask.

The best way you can realize how much technology is intertwined with our lives is if you carefully watch little kids playing with their smart phones. If you take an adult who never used one before and give it to them, they would have a hard time to get to know it but children seem to use these phones with ease. It seems that kids these days take such technology like something absolutely normal in their everyday lives. In fact, they can’t think of their everyday life without the use of their phones.

They are used to this type of technology, they are used to the Internet. The phones today can be used for so much more than just calling people and typing messages. These phones are convenient and easy to use once you get into it and it is true that they are making your life a bit easier. You can use them in so many ways to get yourself organized that you will not need any other device ever to the same.﻿
You can keep track of time, your obligations, see the weather, listen to music, watch videos, find locations, get connected with people from all over the world and so much more. With all the smart apps coming from phone developers, there is little you can’t do. All the latest phones come with large screen sizes which make reading of movie listings, box scores, stock quotes and news articles a walk in a park.

A huge variety of features

A very large number of people avoid using new phones thinking that they will not be able to use them properly because of the screens but not anymore. The latest editions have large screens with ultra high resolution making everything more than readable.

Now, because of the touch screen technology, you will able to see the weather prognosis or the traffic conditions with a few swipes. The technology is so advanced that some phones can determine the temperature, intensity and the right percentage of white light needed to use the phone.

Now, what is a really useful feature is the ability to add personal details to the lock screen just in case that something happens. People who are having health issues can use such feature in case they lose their phone so that the person who finds it can know who to call or where to find the owner.

This largely increases the chance of getting your phone back, especially if you are having medical issues. finally, in case that your battery goes empty, you can now charge your phone really fast. By putting it in airplane mode, you can charge it quickly.

The modern world of technology has given us so much lately. The advanced technology has spawned a new era of amazing mobile devices and gadgets that can make your everyday life so much easier in a lot of different ways. The same goes for the education apps. There a lot of more than useful educational apps that are available absolutely for free and most of them are very useful in the terms of education.

Social media platforms, RSS readers, math phonics and drilling, various learning platforms, the list could go on and on. The main thing with these apps is that they are not that much academic where the focus would only be on individual skills. Instead, these apps give the opportunity to a wide variety of students that can improve their abilities to find, understand and use information, connect with other students and eventually, the way they think.﻿
Knowing how to use your education apps might give you the chance to find your information much faster and then use it to its full potential. Now, even though most of the apps are free, some do require an in-app purchase. Some of the robust paid educational apps included here have more than just one free or lite version.

Some of them come with developer commentary that should help the users to learn to use it much easier and some of them have brief statements emphasizing the most important reasons why you should use that particular app.

The apps everyone should be aware of

The first app that comes to mind that is not so educational but extremely useful most definitely is Google Maps. You can get to any location using such an app and get the exact information about the roads in high resolution. Also, if you want to see some satellite imagery of various locations all across the globe, Google Maps is the best app that you can use. You will be able to get the wanted information in just a few seconds.

When it comes to more educational apps that the students can use to explore music, arts, technology and engineering, English, social studies, math or science, the developers are warmly suggesting BrainPOP Featured Movie. Find the most relative Health and all other educational subjects via this app. Readers, librarians, teachers and parents can find all the information they need about the most top rated books using the Best Books for Tweens app.

If you are interested in how your body and organism work, the Pocket Body Lite contains all the information about internal, neurovascular and musculoskeletal organs in both visual and readable content. Find out all about your body through a simple use of an app on your mobile device any time you need it. Back in the day, you had to go to a library hoping that they have a book you need but not anymore. From the comfort of your home